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Born October 31, 1848 • Baltimore • Maryland
Died February 4, 1895 (aged 46) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Subjects Of Study Dakota language • Oceti Sakowin • Omaha • Osage • Siouan languages • culture • grammar
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Aristophanes Of Byzantium
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Liddell, portrait bust by Henry Richard Hope-Pinker, 1888; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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